The Petersfield Society Awards

Each year the Society presents the presitious President's Owl and Certificates of Merit to local projects, architectural or environmental, deemed to have has a positive impact on the quality of life in the town and the surrounding areas.
Members nominations are sought and considered by the committee, who announce the winners at the AGM in May.

Launched in 1980, one of the first Certificates of Merit was awarded to Chalton Windmill. This prominent feature of the landscape had been threatened with demolition in the 1950s. Thanks to the Society's efforts it was saved through the awarding of a preservation order by the County Council. It remained in a dilapidated state until it changed hands in the 1970s and the new owners renovated both the building and the sails. It is this conservation that earned them a Certificate of Merit.



2003
In 2003 the President's Owl was awarded to the Petersfield Hospital Garden and Certificates of Merit went to the Buriton Barn Development and the new BP Garage for incorporating solar panels in its sustainable energy design.

2004
In 2004 The Petersfield Society examined a wide range of schemes and decided unanimously that this years nominations did not meet the standard required to receive the prestigious President Owl. A Certificate of Merit was awarded to Derek Wiltshire for his sympathetic design to enlarge the entrance to the Methodist Church Hall improving access and the extension to the kitchen.

AGM Hall 1 Hall 2

2005
The President,s Award, the Owl this year was given to the new school hall at Sheet Primary School.
Certificates of Merit were given to Reeves in Sussex Road for the conversion of the old office building and to Rotherlands for the improvements to the High Street and Square

2006
Certificates of Merit were presented to EHDC Environmental Health Dept for improvements to Tilmore Brook at Herne Farm, to Bewley Homes for the Housing Development at East Meon and to Mrs. Tiffany Lewis and Mr Giles Dixon for the refurbishment of 20 High Street.

2007
The President’s Award, The Owl, was awarded to Jake Watkins for the sympathetic conversion of the “JSW Restaurant”, a seventeenth century building. The Award was received by Camilla Seth-Smith on behalf of Mr. Watkins.
The Certificate of Merit was awarded to Mr. Ken Heppell for The Petersfield Herald Remembrance Clock. Mr. Heppell had been a strong friend of Petersfield over many years. He said the idea of the Clock had come to him in 1999 at 11a.m. on Remembrance Day. He expressed his thanks to Tony Struthers, in particular, and The Society for backing his idea.